Friday, 27 July 2007

• eucharist(5)

  We are making some progress here people.
  
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  "The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life,"
  
  "The Bread of angels has
  become the Bread of mankind;
  This heavenly Bread puts an
  end to all images;
  O wonderful reality!
  The poor, the slave, and the
  humble can eat the Lord."
  -Thomas Aquinas( 13th Century)
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  "What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation"
  
  "In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood."
  
  "Man should tremble, the world should vibrate, all Heaven should be deeply moved when the Son of God appears on the altar in the hands of the priest."
  -St Francis of Assisi(Early 13th Century)
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  "O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we will not fall through weariness during our pilgrimage in this life, but will be fortified by You, celestial nourishment,"
  -Saint Catherine of Siena(14th Century)
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  "Here, in the Sacrament of the Altar, You are wholly present, my God, the Man Christ Jesus; here we freely partake the fruit of eternal salvation... No levity, curiosity, or sentimentality must draw us, but firm faith, devout hope and sincere love."
  
  "O God, invisible Creator of the world, how wonderful are Your dealings with us! How sweetly and graciously You welcome Your chosen, to whom You give Yourself in this Sacrament! It passes all understanding, it kindles the love and draws the hearts of the faithful to Yourself. For Your faithful ones, who strive to amend their whole lives, receive in this most exalted Sacrament the grace of devotion and the love of virtue,"
  -St Thomas a Kempis (Late 14th/ Early 15th Century)
  
  
  

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